Tag: Serial

The peace and the quiet was great for calming down. I hadn’t realized how tense I was. I’d started to relax a little with Alex over dinner the night before, but that was trashed almost immediately. Now I felt better, when Adrian came down he handed me another card. “Come by next week, there won’t be a party, and come…

I didn’t look around, I didn’t move much into the room even after Leah left me there. I stood still just staring straight at my feet. It wasn’t natural, but I felt loose and comfortable and it was familiar. Everything about this day had been familiar – even the small boy hugging to me like I was his only life…

Half the day was gone when I decided to take a break. More than half really it was 3 pm. I looked at the cards in my pocket, flipping between the three of them. One I knew I might run into Alex, so I stuck it back in my pocket. But the other two I…

I walked angrily for a long while before I stopped just outside Heckscher Playground. It was a good place to get the kids to make the parents stop for art time. It was a central location to all the fun kid attractions, the zoo being number one on most lists. I’d never been personally – at least not in…

I stood on the landing while I waited for Abby to close in on me. “You quit your job?” She pushed me backwards until I was all the way up the stairs and she pushed past me to the coffee pot. “Yes. I can’t see Alex.” “Alex? What did he do?” “Nothing.” I said though she knew I…

I cried myself to sleep on the couch, and when I dreamed I woke to the strange landscape. My eyes felt like I’d been crying for hours, I probably looked a fright. Even in my dream I seemed to echo how I really felt. There was a voice behind me, “I hoped I’d find you…

I ate slowly. I don’t know if it was because I didn’t want to talk or because I didn’t want to listen to what Alex had to say. Either way Alex finished before I did and he watched me lift my fork to my mouth repeatedly. His eyes never leaving the fork.  “Do you enjoy that?” I asked.…

My stomach growled at me as I walked away. The food inside of Fiore smelled good, I was starving. I debated with the idea of stopping for food, but every time I went to go I got derailed, my anger raging once again. I don’t know how far I walked in a huff before I…

Alex looked at me with big blue eyes. “Who is?” he asked. But he knew it was true too. “Everyone.” I said. “Abby and Will tried to hide their relationship from me at first. Like I might get in the middle of something bigger. And then when I confessed I knew they were together, they only grudgingly…

We sat in our own little worlds content to be together like it was old hat. Like something we’ve done a million times before and it was only the first time. I wrapped my fingers in his and that made him look down at our now clasped hands. I saw a smile creep over his lips as…

I sat on my bed waiting. Just waiting. It felt like forever as I sat there. I picked at the pail polish on my fingers, chewed my bottom lip before I got up and paced for what felt like another forever.And when the knock came I was surprised he didn’t just walk in afterwards but I took a deep…

I took a long shower, and dressed in what Alex thought I should wear. There was something freeing about not having to stress out over it. I did my make up – the eyeliner, a little bit of strawberry lip balm just in case there was a kiss, there was a slight color to it…

I wasn’t feeling much better by the time I got back to my place but I was doing a little better, my breathing was at least normal. At least until I opened my door and found several large crates sitting just inside the door. On top of one of the large wooden boxes as a…

Abby left to go get ready for work. And the two sorta brothers to my boss stayed. Ryan took it upon himself to throw me out of my own kitchen to do the dishes. “I got this. You cooked.” “It’s my house.” I protested. “I got this.” He pushed me physically away from the kitchen.…

I crawled out of bed and took the cold cup of coffee with me when Ryan was done. “I’m hungry.” Alex gave me a weak smile and handed me a cup of coffee, “Black right?” I smiled back, “You are Coffee two sugars and cream.” I took the coffee, “Thanks. You are all welcome to stay.” I…

I feel asleep on my bed with my clothes on to the thoughts of my blue eyed boy and his hot lips. I wanted him so bad and I was waiting in my strange landscape for him to show up but a noise outside jerked me awake. I growled at myself for having fallen asleep so early and without a shower.…

My apartment was a split level in a really weird way. I walked into my bedroom from the entry way, and upstairs was the living space and the kitchen. I could have probably set up differently, but then I would have had to take all the furnishings and move them around, and I didn’t really…

That was all eleven long weeks ago. I eventually found out that Rider’s sorta brother who owns the building Brew is in was the Alex I had given the coffee to that first day. But Alex wasn’t the guy I gave it to – that was Ryan – another sorta brother to Alex and Rider,…

Brew was busy as I walked into the cafe. There were three people behind the counter, a young man who nodded his head when I arrived. He couldn’t be more than sixteen. An older man, and a young woman who was taking cash at the register from a patron. She slipped a few dollars into her palm…

And just like every night since waking up I dreamt of the same haunting blue eyes with an infamous smirk and a voice that makes my insides quiver. The strangeness of the dream was comforting yet foreign all at the same time. I figured it was something I had done before but didn’t remember. The…

New York City, the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps – a moniker that was true no matter how hard you tried to hide the fact. Lights were always on, sirens always blared. I had memories of mountains, but I couldn’t recall when or how I had ever seen them. But I had once…